Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Preview: Audiolicious: Turn Any RSS Feed Into A Podcast Using Text-To-Speech

It's late (1:14 AM), and I'm not quite ready to release the binaries yet until I do some more testing, but I want to give my technically-minded readers a peek at an open-source program called Audiolicious that I will be releasing tomorrow or the day after.

Basically it will let you turn any RSS feed into a podcast. It will download the links mentioned in the RSS feed and generate MP3 files from those webpages, using text-to-speech. Unfortunately it's Windows-only (sorry Linux-heads).

The source code is below. If anything, it shows the beautiful concision of Ruby -- it accomplishes a lot in a mere 62 lines of code: